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Homebrew DVR commercial skip idea
/ 18.Sep.2009
This just popped into my head while thinking about how shittastic my Comcast DVR is. Made me think about homebrew/open source DVR software. I have no experience at all with this and hell, this might even already exist, but wouldn’t it be cool if your DVR connects to a ‘commercial skip server’ that’s crowd sourced or maintained somehow. Basically, all it would store are timestamps for when commercials start and stop for the shows. If a show has commercial skip information when you go to watch your program, it could just automatically skip through the commercials and if it doesn’t, there could be an option for you to ‘mark’ where the commercials start and stop.. and after so many DVR’s mark a program, it gets verified and automatically skips commercials from then on. Just thought that would be cool to have in a DVR. What do you think?
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MythTV probably has it. Over 5 years ago, someone built in a smart commercial-finding algorithm that really worked well – I remember it just skipping straight over interludes < 30 secs long with blank frames on both ends.
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